Stormwater management has long been an issue of infrastructure engineering in the U.S. Compounded by the movement to urban communities, localities all across the country have to contend with controlling the runoff from the built environment and managing it to mitigate risks while also developing applications that may better make use of it.
How did it start, how does it stand now, and how far will it go from this point?
A Brief History
Under amendments to the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency was tasked to establish measures to control certain stormwater runoff. In response, the EPA came up with two sets of regulations – first in 1990, and then in 1999, which established requirements for municipal separate storm sewer systems as well as industrial activities.
These led to the identification of quite a number of sources pending permission, which the agency and other administrative systems were unable to manage. As a result, water quality control was still not fulfilled. Read more from this blog. http://bit.ly/2mkutbA
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